On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 07:22:13PM -0000, Dean Browett wrote:
> There appears to be a problem with the length of the pop3 user acct name
> under qmail.
I don't think there is.
> I have an idea that the max allowable characters in the xxx part of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be 64 characters (I've looked at rfc's 821 and 1939
> and did not find a definitive answer). I had a situation where a user had
> used 35 characters in the pop3 acct name causing the mail to bounce.
Let's see the evidence. And anyway, how could a POP user name possibly affect
mail delivery? POP is used to collect mail that's already been delivered, and
whatever limitations a POP daemon may or may not impose on the length of a user
name is unknown to the agents invloved in delivering mail to a user's mailbox.
> Can someone please confirm the actual limit for the pop3 acct name under
> qmail and also where I might find the defacto reference for the information
> provided.
Without even looking at the code, I can say with reasonable confidence that
qmail-popup and checkpassword don't impose any limitations on the length of a
user name, and even if they did these limitations couldn't cause anyone's mail
to bounce.
Chris
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